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This Chinese company is secretly behind 24 popular apps seeking dangerous permissions
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Quote: Shenzhen HAWK Internet Co., Ltd is a Chinese company that’s secretly developing 24 popular apps, totaling more than 382 million installs, with some apps containing malware and rogueware, and often participating in unethical practices.
When we analyzed the 23 companies secretly behind 100+ VPN products, we first saw the developer Hi Security pop up, which had 3 VPN products under its name. Then, when we analyzed the amount of dangerous permissions popular free antivirus apps were requesting, Hi Security popped up again.
Our interests piqued, we dug further and discovered something startling...
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
https://vpnpro.com/blog/chinese-company-secretly-behind-popular-apps-seeking-dangerous-permissions/
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This Chinese company is secretly behind 24 popular apps seeking dangerous permissions - by sidemoon - 02-04-2020 , 10:41 PM
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